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Autor/in | Lass, Roger |
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Titel | How to Do Things with Junk: Exaptation in Language Evolution. |
Quelle | In: Journal of Linguistics, 26 (1990) 1, S.79-109 |
Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
Schlagwörter | Stellungnahme; Afrikaans; Contrastive Linguistics; Diachronic Linguistics; Grammar; Indo European Languages; Language Research; Morphology (Languages); Structural Analysis (Linguistics); Syntax; Uncommonly Taught Languages |
Abstract | Uses illustrations from the history of Germanica to explain the concept of exaptation when dealing with language evolution, i.e., the reuse of language material that has been coded by morphology but has since lost its grammatical distinction. (46 references) (GLR) |
Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |